Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:52:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Don Morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: so-called "spindown" problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811121551460.24229-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3649341E.DF727B80@u.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Don Morrison wrote: > During heavy disk activity, such as performing an fsck I've > run into the kernel messages: > > wd1: interrupt timeout: > wd1: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam> > wd1: wdtimeout() DMA status 4 > > I looked at the mail archives, and noticed some suggest that > this is due to a disk spindown. My question is, how does > the disk spindown during an fsck? Maybe I'm just > completely ignorant here, but I can't see a logical reason > for it to do this under constant disk activity. Actually, it appears that the disk controller is loosing the DMA channel. Perhaps you have two devices sharing a DMA channel, like a soundcard? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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